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[taken][unpaid]Very Basic City Map Needed

{Unpaid, please-oh-please}

No time limit - but yesterday would be soon enough ;-)

I am looking for a map of a City - the concept is actually very simple and I have drawn it out on paper
Circular streets starting with a well in the center then open out to include a few things
The rest is completely optional -- I only need the point of reference for certain locations within the City
I do need the City walled with the outter area to be desert

I am not particular about the style, colors or scale --- anything that the artist wants to do or work with is a-ok with me --- I would just be appreciative to have someone help me out

I am going to include the map on a personal website, and would be more than happy to have copyright, link page of devotion -- whatever back to the artist

i can be contacted at kliberal - at - hotmail.com

i took a picture of the map i drew if anyone is interested - would be more than happy to email it, you cant tell a lot about it from the picture though

It wouldn't really make sense to add random houses (unless you mean separate houses not part of the city blocks) since most of the city blocks will be houses - or appartments (in a normal world), I can scatter some inns and cafes around the map. You might want to consider dividing the city into various quarters, you've effectively got the merchant's quarter, you could have other quarters too, which will be easy to colour code.

Do you want me to put a title in? I.e. the name of your city?

I use a programme called Serif Drawplus, it's reasonably cheap and very intuitive to use, but there is also a free equivalent called inkscape. I recommend you download that and have a play with it.